{"id":51809,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/when-using-a-semicolon-and-a-connecting-word-to-join-two-independent-clauses-should-you-put-a-colon-dash-semicolon-or-comma-after-the-connecting-word"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:37:51","slug":"when-using-a-semicolon-and-a-connecting-word-to-join-two-independent-clauses-should-you-put-a-colon-dash-semicolon-or-comma-after-the-connecting-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/when-using-a-semicolon-and-a-connecting-word-to-join-two-independent-clauses-should-you-put-a-colon-dash-semicolon-or-comma-after-the-connecting-word\/","title":{"rendered":"When using a semicolon and a connecting word to join two independent clauses, should you put a colon, dash, semicolon, or comma after the connecting word?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, if you are joining two independent clauses, you can use a semicolon. However, you do not necessarily need a connecting word. <\/p>\n<p>Honestly, if you did use a connecting word, it would depend on what it was. For example: &#8220;and&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t need a comma; &#8220;however&#8221; would need a comma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, if you are joining two independent clauses, you can use a semicolon. However, you do not necessarily need a connecting word. Honestly, if you did use a connecting word, it would depend on what it was. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/when-using-a-semicolon-and-a-connecting-word-to-join-two-independent-clauses-should-you-put-a-colon-dash-semicolon-or-comma-after-the-connecting-word\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}